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The Beave | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Except that they can't control it easily or subvert it to come out ahead. Nothing that's been done globally in the monetary system shows any willingness to use sound money on any form.
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matta | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 Not a popular opinion: 
but I do believe there is a non-zero chance that the NSA created Bitcoin for this exact Fourth Turning purpose.
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The Beave | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I've thought about that a bit. The only issue I have with that is that it doesn't allow for the amount of control that they typically aim for. It's too stabilizing, too air tight, with the only think I can think of being a vulnerability is is they know that over time they will be able to acquire most of not all BTC for themselves.